Peter Millar

Peter Millar

Lead Principal Data Engineer

Research Triangle Park, NC · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 days ago
PythonGitSQLAzureCI/CDSparkData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsRAGAgentic AIVendor ManagementTest AutomationLeadership

About the role

  • It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
  • We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
  • If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end architecture of the Microsoft Fabric environment, including Lakehouse and Warehouse design, the medallion (bronze/silver/gold) pattern, and Direct Lake semantic datasets.
  • Design and govern OneLake as the single, organization-wide data lake, managing domains, shortcuts, data mirroring, and Delta Lake/Parquet storage standards.
  • Own data ingestion and transformation at scale using Fabric Data Factory pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, and Spark notebooks.

Requirements

  • Implement security and governance controls, row/column-level security and PII handling, required for AI at scale.
  • Microsoft Fabric - deep, hands-on experience with Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, Spark notebooks, and Direct Lake.
  • Azure AI. experience integrating Azure AI services / Azure OpenAI into data and retrieval pipelines.
  • Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI Foundry) - working knowledge of the model catalog and RAG/agent grounding for GenAI workloads (applicable to this role).

Nice to have

  • Expert SQL and Python
  • strong Spark (PySpark) experience.
  • Experience managing or directing outsourced/consulting engineering teams.
  • Exposure to Microsoft Purview, data governance, and security/compliance frameworks.
  • Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • Master's or relevant Microsoft certifications (e.g., Fabric Analytics Engineer, Azure Data Engineer Associate) a plus.

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